Single Plausible instance for tracking multiple domains/subdomains not working

[nemanjam]

Like stated in docs, I should be able to track any website that has JavaScript snippet included regardless of the domain or subdomain where they are hosted, and later in dashboard I can filter by each domain.

https://plausible.io/docs/subdomain-hostname-filter

Similar discussion that says the same:

#482

So I did exactly this, I am hosting 3 mirrors of same website that all have the same JavaScript snippet included.

1. https://nemanjamitic.com

https://github.com/nemanjam/nemanjam.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/bash__deploy-nginx.yml

2. https://nemanjam.github.io

https://github.com/nemanjam/nemanjam.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/gh-pages__deploy-manual.yml

3. https://nmc-docker.arm1.nemanjamitic.com

https://github.com/nemanjam/nemanjam.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/default__build-push-docker.yml

But only the original domain https://nemanjamitic.com that I set up in Plausible initial wizard is actually being tracked. Why?

Here you can access the dashboard and see that only the original domain is tracked and there is no option to filter by domain:

https://plausible.arm1.nemanjamitic.com/nemanjamitic.com

Here is my docker-compose.yml for self hosting:

https://github.com/nemanjam/traefik-proxy/blob/main/apps/plausible/docker-compose.yml

How can I track all 3 of them, am I missing some settings, maybe this?

[ruslandoga]

👋 @nemanjam

I'm not on the team / not very familiar with that part of Plausible, but I think the data-domain needs to be nemanjamitic.com for all sites. Right now it is nemanjam.github.io for the GitHub pages site and the request the tracker sends to Plausible doesn't provide any information on how to associate it with nemanjamitic.com

 curl 'https://plausible.arm1.nemanjamitic.com/api/event' \
  -X 'POST' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'Host: plausible.arm1.nemanjamitic.com' \
  -H 'Origin: https://nemanjam.github.io' \
  -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15' \
  -H 'Content-Length: 84' \
  --data-binary '{"n":"pageview","u":"https://nemanjam.github.io/","d":"nemanjam.github.io","r":null}'

So as far as Plausible is concerned, these are two separate sites.

[ruslandoga]

You would be able to filter by hostname because event.hostname is extracted from u or url which would stay https://nemanjam.github.io/

[ruslandoga]

#482 is too old to be of any value :)

[nemanjam]

Ok, I can hardcode it easily, but why is he setting it explicitly differently?

script.dataset.domain=window.location.host 

Should I do some domain whitelisting in Plausible dashboard?

[ruslandoga]

Ok, I can hardcode it easily, but why is he setting it explicitly differently?

Times were different :)

[nemanjam]

It looks like you are right, I can filter by nemanjam.github.io domain after I hardcoded nemanjamitic.com for all mirrors.